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Friday, March 09, 2007

Photo Hunters: Architecture

Hartford Municipal BuildingHartford, Connecticut

This building replaced the Old State House as the seat of city government when it opened in 1915. The design is of the Beaux-Art style, constructed of brick and faced with white Bethel, Conn. granite, with a copper and tile roof. All of the entrances are bronze. The 3-story central atrium is 25' wide by 150' long, decorated with panels depicting scenes from Hartford's history.

I took these photos when I lived in Hartford. I love this building and many others in Hartford. Hartford was the center of great architecture in the Golden Age, when Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe lived there.

I made a movie of these shots which can be seen HERE.Thank you for stopping by! I can't wait to see the other posts!For more photos, click "Read More" below.

Very stately looking building! It almost looks like the inside of the building used for the courthouse in the movie "And Justice for All" with Al Pacino. I just recently saw this again, that's why it came to my mind (No I don't always remember the inside's of buildings in movies!!) It was just that there was one scene when one of the lawyers went a bit nuts and started throwing plates down the hall and it reminds me of this.

I also watched the video. I think I saw a fleur de lys in the architecture in that.

Thanks for sharing some great shots and also for the visit to me blog!

You are so right, some of these look a lot like the big entry of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Perhaps built during a similar time. I think the Met has had several different architects working on it over the years. Very nice shots.

I like Beaux Art style a lot -- not too fussy but grand enough to impress. And no, it is not Michelangelo's Pieta - considered THE Pieta. The one in Notre Dame was made by Nicolas Coustou (French sculptor born in Lyon in 1658 dead in 1733.) Pieta is term used to describe a sculpture of the Madonna cradling the body of Christ. There are many notable ones around the world. The "American Pietà" was the name given to a famous Reuters photograph of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, depicting a policeman and four firemen carrying the body of fire department chaplain Mychal F. Judge out of the World Trade Center rubble. I'm a trivia-kind of person so hope this isn't too much info LOL!